Improvement in railroad-tank water-pipes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE R. CRANE, OF PAINESVILLE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT lN RAILROAD-TANK WATER-PIPES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,854, dated June 9, i874 application filed April 4, 1874.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE R. CRANE, of Painesville, in the county of Lake and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Fall-Pipes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this speciiication, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l ofthe drawing is a representation of a plan View of my fall-pipe, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side View.

This invention has relation to fall-pipes for railroad water-tanks; and it consists in a fallpipe which is composed of tubular sections connected together by means of ball-and socket joints, which will allow the outer or delivery section to receive a universal movement, for the purpose of facilitating the taking of water, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawings, A designates a section of a fall-pipe, which section is rigidly applied to the tank from which the water is drawn to supply locomotive tenders, and

' which extends through the wall E of the tankhouse. On the outer end of this tubular section A an enlargement, a., is formed, which is the section of a sphere, and on which is reeeived a socket, b, formed on one end of a Near the outer end of the section B is a loop, g, to which a suspension-chain, h, is attached, which is carried upward and passed over a pulley, h', applied inside of the wall E, and attached to a weight, W.

It will be seen fromthe above description that the pipe-section B is free to be swung laterally and vertically; that it can be thrown up to the position indicated in Fi g. 3 when not in use, and sustained in this position by means of the weight W.

The fall-pipes now in use are very objectionable, for the reason that engineers are required to bring their engines to rest so that the man-hole in the tender-tank must be in a position which is directly opposite the point of attachment of the fall-pipe to the supply-tank, and the variation from this position can be but a few inches either way. This is a dithcult thing to do with a heavy train, a slippery track, and, as often occurs, when the station is located on a down-grade.

This objection I obviate by my laterallyswinging fall-pipe.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a fall-pipe, the convex circular enlarged portions c a ot' the section A, and the concavocircular portions b b of the section B, forming a Water-tight ball-and-socket joint, in combination with the ball c, socket-clamp O, and rod el, attached to section B and ball c, substalb tially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE R. CRANE.

Titnessesz J. B. BUREoWs, GEORGE E. UPEAM. 

